Hampden Park School
Household
Hampden Park School is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Polegate, East Sussex. It received household waste between 1964 and 1965, covering about 3.62 hectares. Reference EAHLD20319, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD20319 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Hampden Park School |
| Address | Binsted Close, Eastbourne, Sussex |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Not recorded |
| Licence issued | Not recorded |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | 31 December 1964 |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1965 |
| Area | 3.62 ha |
| Gas control | Yes |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Not recorded |
| EA area | Sussex SO |
| Grid reference | 559900, 102500 |
Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.
Boundary map
What these waste types mean
- Household:
- everyday domestic refuse. Decomposes and can generate landfill gas for a few decades after closure.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Elm Grove, Hampden ParkIndustrialHouseholdCommercial
- Winkney FarmHouseholdCommercial
- Highfields School Playing FieldsHouseholdCommercialInert
- Hampden Park Relief RoadHousehold
- Lottbridge Drove Phase 1 and 2HouseholdCommercialInert
- Lottbridge Drove Phase 3HouseholdCommercialInert
What this data does — and doesn't — cover
- Licensed-era records only. Waste licensing began in 1974. Older tips — especially small pre-war ones — are incompletely recorded, so absence from this data does not mean no landfill ever existed here.
- Not the contaminated-land register. Councils hold a separate register of land determined as contaminated. A historic landfill entry is not a contamination determination, and vice versa.
- Boundaries are indicative. Digitised at 1:10,000 scale; some are buffers around a point rather than surveyed edges.
- Not a substitute for a formal environmental search. If you're buying, your conveyancer's environmental search checks this and several other sources.
EA Historic Landfill dataset, October 2025 revision. More on the methodology page.